The Hanford Site in southeastern Washington is pictured in this 2020 photo. The nuclear reservation includes 56 million gallons of radioactive waste across 580 square miles.

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy Secretary Chris ...

Efforts to restore the land and waters at and around Hanford are at a “tumultous moment,” given inadequate Trump administration budgets, she said. Current and proposed budgets fall short of ...

The waste in the Hanford tanks is made up of highly radioactive cesium, strontium and various other toxic chemicals left over from the World War II bomb works. About 53 millions gallons was stored ...

The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.